Five bloodbaths that rocked foreign investors

The Abu Dhabi Investment Council purchased a 90% stake in the leasehold for the building in 2008 in a deal that valued the controlling interest at $800 million. It sold it January 2019 for $150 million, a $650 million loss.

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MARRIOTT EAST SIDE HOTEL

525 Lexington Ave.

Deka Immobilien Investment and Ashkenazy Acquisition Co. purchased the hotel for $270 million in 2015, then revealed in August that it had been trying to sell the property for $174 million, a potential $100 million loss.

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2 COOPER SQUARE

Wafra Inc., a Kuwaiti investment fund, purchased the leasehold for $135 million in 2012 and sold it in August for $85 million, a $50 million loss.

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370 LEXINGTON AVE.

Japan-based Unizo Holdings Co. purchased the building for $250 million in 2015 and sold it for $190 million in December, a $60 million loss.

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53 W. 53RD ST.

Pontiac Land Group, a family-owned company in Singapore, invested $300 million in this 950-foot-tall condo tower. Now, four years after sales began, a little more than 30% of the 145 units have been sold.

Read the full story on how foreign investors have been battered by losses here.

A growing list of foreign real estate investors, after pouring billions of dollars into major New York City real estate purchases in recent years, have found themselves in a financial predicament.

And foreign firms have placed such large bets on the city's property market that, even if their losses hem closer to the modest market-wide drop, it adds up to huge sums of lost cash.

Here is a list of some of the properties that have felt the brunt of the city's real estate shake-up. Click through the gallery above.

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